Past & Present of Sandwich Islands 1853 Signed Hawaii Start Price USD 3,500.00 Current Price USD 3,500.00 Time Left 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 23, 2008 End Time Monday, December 22, 2008 Location Sean Fagan, Rare Books See more about 'Past & Present of Sandwich Islands 1853 Signed Hawaii' Description   About Us       Contact Us       Shipping Terms & Return Policy        Bargain Bin       Newly Listed       We Buy Books     Make an offer. We are clearing out the shop and warehouse.  Over 10,000 fresh books coming to market in the next few months.  We need space and we will accept reasonable offers on all books.    Browse These Books Too  Sets & Leather Bindings  First Editions & Classics  Civil War  American History  General History  Travels & Places Illustrated & Children's Books New York State History  Philosophy  Art & Sculpture  Architecture  Gardening & Nature  Science and Mathematics  Hunting & Fishing  Rare & Unusual Books  Miscellaneous  Poetry  Religion                 Author Name:   Hunt, Timothy DwightTitle:    The Past and Present of the Sandwich Islands: Being a Series of Lectures, to the First Congregational Church, San Francisco. Binding:   HardcoverBook Condition:   Near Fine/No Jacket as issued. Edition:   First EditionPublisher:   San Francisco Whitton, Towne and Co. 1853Seller ID:   INTERLOC022860 16mo, 189pp., Gilt lettered spine. Tiny amount of fraying at spine ends. Mild foxing on some pages. Former owner signature dated 1907. Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition of the first book printed in California on Hawaii. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and given to Jane L. Hardy, a member of the church Hunt was Pastor of. Timothy Dwight Hunt [1821-1895] was a missionary in Hawaii who delivered a series of popular lectures on the Islands in San Francisco in 1852-3. Hunt arrived in San Francisco from Hawaii in 1848 to serve as chaplain to the American community and provide the first Protestant worship. When in 18 49, agents of other denominations organized separate churches, Hunt gathered the First Congregational Church. From eight charter members, the church grew to be for many decades the premier pulpit in the city, and to endure as a caring community. Apparently only 500 copies of this book were issued. Likely most of these eventually ended up in libraries as we have seldom seen copies without the library marks. We have never seen a copy as nice as this in the original binding. Likely the best obtainable copy of this scarce book. Forbes 1946; Greenwood, California Imprints 388. Hawaii Hawaiiana Americana American West, American History, California Imprints Created by eBay Blackthorne ver. 3.2.146.0 Place a Bid!